Re: [PATCH 7/7] efi_rtc: probe function error out in case no efi runtime enabled

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Thu Sep 25 2014 - 17:19:05 EST


On Mon, 22 Sep, at 12:33:29PM, Mark Salter wrote:
>
> Is this still needed after commit da167ad7638759:
>
> rtc: ia64: allow other architectures to use EFI RTC

Umm... we should really look at disabling this for x86, since the EFI
time functions don't work on a bunch of machines I've got here.

And it looks like someone enabled this driver and triggered an oops on
their 32-bit EFI tablet,

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84241#c21
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